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KNOX – Prince Philip, over the Malahat and into 70 years in the spotlight

April 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

PRINCE PHILIP, who died Friday, had several links to Vancouver Island. His friendship with North Saanich’s Campbell Stuart, a retired federal trade negotiator who had lost [Continue]

KNOX – A fire-in-the-sky reminder from Elon Musk to look up now and again

March 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

A FIERY LIGHT shot across our sky Thursday night, a mysterious celestial display that lit up Victoria like a bike-lane debate. Fortunately, I was able to sacrifice a goat, [Continue]

KNOX – Eighteen years later, it’s time to celebrate refugees’ success

March 21, 2021 // 1 Comment

EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER, Margaret Lansana still remembers the scene at the Victoria airport on that chilly, very un-African day. Drums were pounding, flowers were thrust in her [Continue]

KNOX – Spring forward, fall back and crawl under the bed until 2022

March 15, 2021 // 2 Comments

TO BE FAIR, Premier John Horgan never actually promised we would scrap the time change by now. No, in 2019 when B.C. passed legislation to do away with the twice-a-year clock [Continue]

KNOX – Some saw only the addict, others the man inside

March 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

WHAT WAS SHOCKING about Wayne Samson’s fall is that it came from such a height. One day he was a successful, middle-aged Victoria businessman — wife, kids, house, the [Continue]

KNOX – Off-target tweets don’t phase Georgia’s John Horgan

February 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

IT WAS AN IMPASSIONED PLEA from a Point Grey resident that got John Horgan’s attention Monday. I’m a parent of four, the email said. Extending SkyTrain to UBC will change [Continue]

KNOX – The brother who wouldn’t lose hope, the sister who fought to free him

February 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

THERE WERE TIMES in Iran’s notorious Evin prison that Saeed Malekpour, a death sentence hanging over his head, would shut his eyes and dream of being back on Vancouver [Continue]

KNOX – Signs of hope, notes of caution among the latest pandemic news

February 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU MIGHT RECALL a December column in which I urged weary readers to maintain COVID discipline, keep their Christmas celebrations small and hang on for what I assured them [Continue]

KNOX – Takaya the wolf dies by hunter’s hand, but his memory lives on

January 31, 2021 // 1 Comment

CHERYL ALEXANDER hasn’t been back to Discovery Island that much since Takaya died. “It still feels a bit raw, knowing that he’s not here,” she says. The Victoria [Continue]

KNOX – As councillor apologizes, Horgan eyes inter-provincial travel ban

January 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

SHARMARKE DUBOW apologized again Thursday. “By travelling to see my family at a time when so many others in our community did not do the same, I let you down,” he told [Continue]

KNOX – While raging against globe-trotters, take a look in the mirror

January 10, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE GOOD NEWS: it’s easier to fight off Victoria’s grey, damp winter chill when your blood is boiling. For those keeping score at home (and really, it’s hard to keep [Continue]

KNOX – Birth, life and pandemic-inspired tech that shrinks the world

December 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

DURING THE 1994 Commonwealth Games, an Australian athlete became a father. Pat Scammell wasn’t around for the birth. The middle-distance runner was here in Victoria, [Continue]

KNOX – Add one large ‘three wise ones’ wood carving to Dr. Bonnie tributes

December 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

GOLD, FRANKINCENSE and Moderna? No, the Mayne Island Magi come bearing gifts of calm, kindness and safety — fitting, seeing as one of them is Dr. Bonnie Henry. “I call [Continue]

KNOX – The Rumbles return, but where are they coming from?

December 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE RUMBLES RETURNED this week, which means the Grumbles did, too. OK, maybe not so much grumbles as a quick dive under the bed to brace for an earthquake that didn’t come, [Continue]